About 6:30pm we had an unexpected power cut. Not only was it confusing as the power went out -- it took me a couple of minutes to work out what was going on as i still had power on the laptop (from the battery of course) and was typing up and email. Boys upstairs, parents downstairs - but all hell breaks lose as it's very dark in house without power and the boys freaked big time! They couldn't see a thing o happy times suddenly went bad! Good news is that the amount of shrieking and shouting going on we could locate them quickly. Took us a while to calm them down and explain to a 6yr old and a 2yr old whats happening. Managed to get emergency phone installed, locate so torches, candles (and a single match!) and get some sort of normality resumed. I rang power company and whatever happened seems to take out about 5 major market towns/villages in the local area! It took just over 2 hrs to restore power (if we have a cut it's normally on within 15 mins!) Be interesting to see what the power company has to say about the outage. Equipment failure, vandalism or too much load?
Monday 28 January 2008
Power Cut
About 6:30pm we had an unexpected power cut. Not only was it confusing as the power went out -- it took me a couple of minutes to work out what was going on as i still had power on the laptop (from the battery of course) and was typing up and email. Boys upstairs, parents downstairs - but all hell breaks lose as it's very dark in house without power and the boys freaked big time! They couldn't see a thing o happy times suddenly went bad! Good news is that the amount of shrieking and shouting going on we could locate them quickly. Took us a while to calm them down and explain to a 6yr old and a 2yr old whats happening. Managed to get emergency phone installed, locate so torches, candles (and a single match!) and get some sort of normality resumed. I rang power company and whatever happened seems to take out about 5 major market towns/villages in the local area! It took just over 2 hrs to restore power (if we have a cut it's normally on within 15 mins!) Be interesting to see what the power company has to say about the outage. Equipment failure, vandalism or too much load?
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